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the death toll from sandy continues to rise. we now know that at least 41 new yorkers have perished. as i cautioned yesterday, as rescue and recovery efforts continue, there could be more fatalities that are discovered. we are getting to the point where we think we've been through every place, but you can never be 100% sure. yesterday, as i'm sure you heard, first responders recovered the bodies of little brandon and connor moore of staten island. brandon was 2 years old, and connor was 4. they were swept away from their mother's arms by the force of sandy's storm surge, and it just breaks your heart to even think about it. as a father, i cannot imagine the pain and anguish the boys' parents are suffering. their father, damien, is a city sanitation worker. at the time of the tragedy he was on the job helping our city respond to the storm. i did talk to him this morning and expressed as a parent my deepest sympathies. there's nothing you can ever say to a parent who has lost a child other than you're praying for them, you're pray
the death toll from sandy continues to rise. we now know that at least 41 new yorkers have perished. as i cautioned yesterday, as rescue and recovery efforts continue, there could be more fatalities that are discovered. we are getting to the point where we think we've been through every place, but you can never be 100% sure. yesterday, as i'm sure you heard, first responders recovered the bodies of little brandon and connor moore of staten island. brandon was 2 years old, and connor was 4. they...
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when sandy hit new york city. cnn crew on the scene is reporting to us a strong smell of methane gas. a utility pole spontaneously burst into flames earlier this morning. officials are now assessing whether the gas levels there are excessively high in this neighborhood, and that could force those fire crews to evacuate. right now, 6.6 million people still without electricity across 15 states, and washington, d.c. nearly 2 million of them are here in new york where flooded subways has transportation at a virtual standstill. not to mention all the property damage and destruction, including those 80 homes that were consumed by that fire in queens. recovery from superstorm sandy could be as mayor michael bloomberg is calling it, a massive, a mammoth job. meteorologist rob marciano is in chelsea, new york, this morning with the latest on the damage there. rob, good morning. >> good morning, soledad. well, some of the damage behind me, one of a few buildings that were ripped off. nobody hurt miraculously. lower manhatta
when sandy hit new york city. cnn crew on the scene is reporting to us a strong smell of methane gas. a utility pole spontaneously burst into flames earlier this morning. officials are now assessing whether the gas levels there are excessively high in this neighborhood, and that could force those fire crews to evacuate. right now, 6.6 million people still without electricity across 15 states, and washington, d.c. nearly 2 million of them are here in new york where flooded subways has...
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sandy in seconds. incredible. time-lapsed video from across the east river shows hurricane sandy slamming into manhattan. this takes two days and compresses it down into two minutes and shows the second the lights go out in lower manhattan and shows everything. really amazing. logon to our web side. go on to cnn.com/trends for all those top cnn trend. >> "early start" continues right now. >>> we're in shock. everybody is in shock. >> there's no words to put on what happened. we have to start over. >> three days since sandy and storm victims are struggling to recover. >> it is five days until election day. both candidates back on the road in the final battleground states. good morning to you. thanks for being with us this morning. i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm john berman. it is 6:00 a.m. in the east. we begin with the latest in the aftermath of that superstorm, the storm that was hurricane sandy. new york city is very slowly attempting to inch back to normal today. some subways and buses will be up and running agai
sandy in seconds. incredible. time-lapsed video from across the east river shows hurricane sandy slamming into manhattan. this takes two days and compresses it down into two minutes and shows the second the lights go out in lower manhattan and shows everything. really amazing. logon to our web side. go on to cnn.com/trends for all those top cnn trend. >> "early start" continues right now. >>> we're in shock. everybody is in shock. >> there's no words to put on...
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"outfront" tonight, the wrath of sand ooec sandy. devastation as far as the eye can see and the death toll still rising. 33 people in 8 states have lost their lives. over 6 million people in the northeast and mid-atlantic are without power. and the estimated cost of the storm is truly stunning. right now this say very preliminary estimate, it will go higher, it could be as high as $20 billion and only for lost business and property damage. to give you a sense of the storm's power, we want to show you this video. that is a tree being uprooted from a backyard on long island, new york. these images are a testament to what officials are calling one of the most powerful storms in history. >> make no mistake about it, this was a devastating storm remember maybe the worst we have ever experienced. >> the level of devastation at the jersey shore is unthinkable. >> unthinkable. and the destruction isn't over yet. we want to show you new pictures in tonight from long beach, new jersey. these boats literally tossed into each other. we saw some
"outfront" tonight, the wrath of sand ooec sandy. devastation as far as the eye can see and the death toll still rising. 33 people in 8 states have lost their lives. over 6 million people in the northeast and mid-atlantic are without power. and the estimated cost of the storm is truly stunning. right now this say very preliminary estimate, it will go higher, it could be as high as $20 billion and only for lost business and property damage. to give you a sense of the storm's power, we...
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look at how destructive superstorm sandy was. this was a dock that completely demolished, that showed you how strong the wind and the waves were in this area. there was a mandatory evacuation order for this area, but clearly some residents say they wanted to ride out the storm and this homeowner stayed inside during the entire time and they say they watched the waves come up and bang into their home. they saw parts of the dock bang into their porch right here as well as a house boat basically collide, causing this trail of destruction. you can see pieces of their home on their lawn, and obviously just a trail of debris here. this is a scene a lot of residents are coming back to as they try to pick up the pieces. now if you look across the street, where the dock ended up or at least a portion of it, in somebody's driveway, you could also see an uprooted tree, downed power lines and if you look at the end of the street, that is where a houseboat ended up, and washed ashore, so clearly a very devastating scene here for a lot of resi
look at how destructive superstorm sandy was. this was a dock that completely demolished, that showed you how strong the wind and the waves were in this area. there was a mandatory evacuation order for this area, but clearly some residents say they wanted to ride out the storm and this homeowner stayed inside during the entire time and they say they watched the waves come up and bang into their home. they saw parts of the dock bang into their porch right here as well as a house boat basically...
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a new problem stirring up in sandy creek. we were just talking about it with christine's personal problems, finding gas. extremely long lines for fuel, for cars, and also for generators. >> waited an hour and a half and got nothing. >> frustration turns into anger. sometimes it's just out and out rage. one man was charged with pulling a gun on another driver, happened in queens, when the guy tried to cut in the line. the shortages might not end for another week. rob marciano is following all this rush. really getting ugly, isn't it, rob? >> it is. day four now, into this crisis, and food and water and other supplies, certainly at a minimum. but the gasoline situation for people who are just trying to get out and around, go to work and such, is certainly becoming a bad deal. gas stations that don't have power obviously can't pump gas. but the ones that do have power don't have the gas because jersey shut down a lot of their gasoline refineries before the storm, and many of those were damaged. so, governor chris christie has ac
a new problem stirring up in sandy creek. we were just talking about it with christine's personal problems, finding gas. extremely long lines for fuel, for cars, and also for generators. >> waited an hour and a half and got nothing. >> frustration turns into anger. sometimes it's just out and out rage. one man was charged with pulling a gun on another driver, happened in queens, when the guy tried to cut in the line. the shortages might not end for another week. rob marciano is...
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this will be the first time the schools have opened since sandy hit last week. about 80 schools will remain closed due to severe storm damage. those schools will be moved to temporary locations. and the conditions for those without power in storm zones could be getting worse over the next few days. the temperature is expected to drop below freezing tonight and tomorrow morning. many residents without power are staying in shelters, trying to stay warm. the red cross is moving 80,000 blankets into the region ahead of colder weather. >>> back to politics now, mitt romney and paul ryan are expected to speak at separate events in just a few minutes. we'll bring those to you as they happen. urn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> it's the top of the hour here in the cnn newsroom. i'm fredericka whitfield. two days before the election, a mara
this will be the first time the schools have opened since sandy hit last week. about 80 schools will remain closed due to severe storm damage. those schools will be moved to temporary locations. and the conditions for those without power in storm zones could be getting worse over the next few days. the temperature is expected to drop below freezing tonight and tomorrow morning. many residents without power are staying in shelters, trying to stay warm. the red cross is moving 80,000 blankets...
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superstorm sandy has crippled that system. there is catastrophic damage to underground tracks and equipment. the mta says it is too early to tell whether full service will return and be fixed. millions of commuters use the system every day. commuters relied on buses, cars and cabs if you were lucky enough to find them. there was gridlock as bad as we have ever seen. look at a live shot of columbus circle south of central park on the west side. central park still remained closed. it has been like this all day. one of the reasons is that crane is still dangling over 57th street and that is creating the massive traffic jam around the circle. jason joins me from the queensboro bridge. i talked to you earlier today and most people have given up trying to get a vehicle they were walking. >> oh, yeah, it has been a frustrating day for thousands of commuters making their way across the bridge. you can look through the traffic people still making their way at this hour even at 8:00. it is the only way for a lot of these people to get h
superstorm sandy has crippled that system. there is catastrophic damage to underground tracks and equipment. the mta says it is too early to tell whether full service will return and be fixed. millions of commuters use the system every day. commuters relied on buses, cars and cabs if you were lucky enough to find them. there was gridlock as bad as we have ever seen. look at a live shot of columbus circle south of central park on the west side. central park still remained closed. it has been...
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hurricane sandy is coming, everyone. the storm forced the presidential candidates to rearrange their travel plans. president obama campaigns in florida tomorrow away from the storm. and mitt romney has called off planned rallies in virginia. he'll be in ohio instead. vice president biden was supposed to be in virginia beach today, but he canceled because of the weather. >>> and this is just in to cnn, just a few details about a car accident today involving the daughter of florida senator marco rubio. this is the senator campaigning with candidate mitt romney earlier today. we carried some of it live here on cnn. according to a statement from rubio's office, 12-year-old amanda rubio was air lifted to a miami hospital where she is in stable condition. we'll get more details when we get them. but we are wishing for the best for the rubio family. >>> while mitt romney's quest for the white house has been well documented, ann romney's journey has been fascinating in its own right. through a compilation of interviews with cnn'
hurricane sandy is coming, everyone. the storm forced the presidential candidates to rearrange their travel plans. president obama campaigns in florida tomorrow away from the storm. and mitt romney has called off planned rallies in virginia. he'll be in ohio instead. vice president biden was supposed to be in virginia beach today, but he canceled because of the weather. >>> and this is just in to cnn, just a few details about a car accident today involving the daughter of florida...
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the new york marathon cancelled because of sandy. but my next guess is she's still going to run in memory of her mother, when we come back. [ male announcer ] do you have the legal protection you need? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start. or protect your family with a will or living trust. legalzoom makes it easy with step-by-step help when completing your personalized document -- or you can even access an attorney to guide you along. with an "a" rating from the better business bureau legalzoom helps you get personalized and affordable legal protection. in most states, a legal plan attorney is available with every personalized document to answer any questions. get started at legalzoom.com today. and now you're protected. to bring you a low-priced medicare prescription drug plan. ♪ with a low national plan premium... ♪ ...and copays as low as one dollar... ♪ ...saving on your medicare prescriptions is easy. ♪ so you're free to f
the new york marathon cancelled because of sandy. but my next guess is she's still going to run in memory of her mother, when we come back. [ male announcer ] do you have the legal protection you need? at legalzoom, we've created a better place to turn for your legal matters. maybe you want to incorporate a business you'd like to start. or protect your family with a will or living trust. legalzoom makes it easy with step-by-step help when completing your personalized document -- or you can even...
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chad myers is tracking sandy. this weather system is massive. tell us how big it is, how wide the impact could be. >> it will be all way from maine to north carolina. every state in that area will get some type of damage. the storm now just leaving the bahamas and it will be making its way up to the northeast. we don't know where it's going to go yet. the the models are from rhode island to about washington, d.c., but i will guarantee you this, every place in this circle will have some type of damage. whether it's wind, trees knocked down, powerlines knocked down coastal erosion or flooding. one of our vendors, wtt, said this may be in some spots, a 1,000 year flood. kind of like what we had in vermont from irene last year. we don't want that. >> you are talking about a storm doing all of this at category 1 possibly. could it get bigger? probably doesn't get bigger. could be a small category 2. the issue is not so much it's a category 1 because it spins around and stays for a long time. there's a big high pressure ridge to the west of it. you ha
chad myers is tracking sandy. this weather system is massive. tell us how big it is, how wide the impact could be. >> it will be all way from maine to north carolina. every state in that area will get some type of damage. the storm now just leaving the bahamas and it will be making its way up to the northeast. we don't know where it's going to go yet. the the models are from rhode island to about washington, d.c., but i will guarantee you this, every place in this circle will have some...
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marathon with all the generate rs, food, water and police that requires as new yorkers still reel from sandy. on staten island today, there was this message for the mayor. after what we heard from person after person there. we were there again today and met this owner of a local garden inn. this hotel is overflowing with people sharing rooms. every one of his rooms, people there have nowhere else to go. richard refused to kick them out to make room for the marathon runners that were supposed to stay there. >> people are dying on staten island. they are dying. and i have a dilemma, do i pull people out who have no place to go to make room for marathon runners? i don't think so. i'm not doing it. i can't do it. >> while victims on staten island and many other new yorkers are relieved the mayor canceled the marathon, the news was hard for some. when our producer broke the news to this runner, tears filled her eyes. >> they're pulling out bodies of little children and us runners are going to walk through and run through their neighborhood in our fancy marathon outfits like nothing happened. let
marathon with all the generate rs, food, water and police that requires as new yorkers still reel from sandy. on staten island today, there was this message for the mayor. after what we heard from person after person there. we were there again today and met this owner of a local garden inn. this hotel is overflowing with people sharing rooms. every one of his rooms, people there have nowhere else to go. richard refused to kick them out to make room for the marathon runners that were supposed to...
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lisa sylvester joins us. >> 88 dead from sandy. but behind each one of those numbers is someone's story. someone who lost their life that day and they ranged in ages from 2 years old to 90 years old. matthew's pastor says the 8-year-old was going as ironman for halloween. but matthew never got that chance. he died monday outside his home. matthew ran out to check on calves the fanlally was raising on their farm when a tree limb fell on him. the family's pastor. >> it wasn't even raining and he had just run out and i saw the tree, it was only the part of the tree that fell was maybe eight inches in diameter. >> reporter: matthew wrote this note two weeks ago to pastor bob. thank you for being a pastor. you are very nice to me and ryan. then matthew asked if the pastor's son, ryan, could come over to play. the two were good buddies. how did your son take the news because you had to tell him, right? >> yeah. i was on the phone and my wife almost fell. she told him and later that night as i tucked ryan in bed, he asked me, did matthew,
lisa sylvester joins us. >> 88 dead from sandy. but behind each one of those numbers is someone's story. someone who lost their life that day and they ranged in ages from 2 years old to 90 years old. matthew's pastor says the 8-year-old was going as ironman for halloween. but matthew never got that chance. he died monday outside his home. matthew ran out to check on calves the fanlally was raising on their farm when a tree limb fell on him. the family's pastor. >> it wasn't even...
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, don and chad. >> sandy, standby. we have chad myers here again. sandy, you can play along in this as well. so we have sandra, chad is in ocean city, maryland, 200 miles north of georgia. georgia is getting pelted at this point. how long before sandy starts to feel what he's feeling? >> there are arms on this storm. they are almost like you see a picture of the hurricane with spiral bands. that's what we have with the storm. let me walk over here to describe what you're going to look at for the next 36 hours. i want you to know when you see it what you're seeing. there's the center of the storm right there, don. wherever there's color, that's where it is storming. that's where it is raining. and that's when the rain will bring down the wind. so when you get a cell, there's even one right there coming onto long island. when you get a cell with a little color and rain, it will translate all of this wind back down to the surface. now, it's not windy right here. it's not windy here. even though this is much closer to the
, don and chad. >> sandy, standby. we have chad myers here again. sandy, you can play along in this as well. so we have sandra, chad is in ocean city, maryland, 200 miles north of georgia. georgia is getting pelted at this point. how long before sandy starts to feel what he's feeling? >> there are arms on this storm. they are almost like you see a picture of the hurricane with spiral bands. that's what we have with the storm. let me walk over here to describe what you're going to...
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the storm called sandy ravaging the entire coastline. the g's office says at least six people with now dead in the aftermath. in long branch and pleasant beach and seaside heights, nobody has electricity. the storm knocked over trees, ripped out electric lines, and today more than two million people just in new jersey are without power. rail service, path trains that run up and down the coastline, forget about that. buses too all suspended. transit officials say it's going to be days, probably weeks before any type of commuter train service starts again between new jersey and new york city. now, look at our team of reporters that we've got them everywhere. cnn is all over the storm-damaged area. we are covering this disaster like no other network can and live coverage of and storm sandy. >>> a new jersey man who has been surfing off the jersey shore for more than 20 years says the destruction along the coast brings tears to his eyes. brian morowski sent us this video. he shot it the day after sandy struck. look at the expanse of all of t
the storm called sandy ravaging the entire coastline. the g's office says at least six people with now dead in the aftermath. in long branch and pleasant beach and seaside heights, nobody has electricity. the storm knocked over trees, ripped out electric lines, and today more than two million people just in new jersey are without power. rail service, path trains that run up and down the coastline, forget about that. buses too all suspended. transit officials say it's going to be days, probably...
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meanwhile, millions are suffering in the wake of superstorm sandy. power is beginning to trickle back on, but more than 2 million customers are still in the dark. new york transit authorities are reporting that subway service is 80% restored. one area still waiting for the lights and the heat to come back, the rockaways section of queens. new york city mayor michael bloomberg toured the heavy devastation there today. susan candiotti is on the ground. >> reporter: the water came up to where in your apartment? >> the water came all the way up to where we were. we were knee deep. we couldn't get out. 911 wouldn't answer. we were stuck. we had to stay there. we were totally scared. and the devastation after the storm is what you see. there's children with no food. there are people without water. nobody has power. people can't cook. and nobody is -- the only people that are out here are people from rockaway that are donating stuff. and rockaway park, just like everyone else, needs help. >> you feel like you've been left out? >> i feel like we need help ou
meanwhile, millions are suffering in the wake of superstorm sandy. power is beginning to trickle back on, but more than 2 million customers are still in the dark. new york transit authorities are reporting that subway service is 80% restored. one area still waiting for the lights and the heat to come back, the rockaways section of queens. new york city mayor michael bloomberg toured the heavy devastation there today. susan candiotti is on the ground. >> reporter: the water came up to...
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a big part of what happened with sandy is we got very unlucky. wrong storm hit at the wrong angle and squeezed water up long island sound and the new york harbor. but climate change made it worse. and it is continuing to make storms like this worse. >> if the water was cooler, the storm would not be as big. >> well, that's one of the factors. this summer we had record high temperatures, the sea surface temperature off the east coast of the united states, warm water feeds the energy of storms like sandy. and in fact research that came out just last month showed an association between warmer sea surface temperatures and higher storm surges, higher floods from hurricanes. >> we're seeing larger and larger populations building along the coast. what kind of impact does that have? >> that has a huge impact. at this stage, it is a much bigger factor. if manhattan was not populated, and the coasts of the jersey shore and long island weren't such very dense areas, we would have seen a lot suffering, a lot less economic damage. >> what should be the lesson
a big part of what happened with sandy is we got very unlucky. wrong storm hit at the wrong angle and squeezed water up long island sound and the new york harbor. but climate change made it worse. and it is continuing to make storms like this worse. >> if the water was cooler, the storm would not be as big. >> well, that's one of the factors. this summer we had record high temperatures, the sea surface temperature off the east coast of the united states, warm water feeds the energy...
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hurricane sandy. bonnie schneider is there with us now. a lot of forecasters have said they havep seen anything like this, or they anticipate this will be a record breaking kind of storm because you're really talking about three systems kind of converging, this hurricane, talking about the jet stream, and talking about this cold front all potentially colliding and that's what makes it so potentially threatening? >> that's why a lot of people are comparing it to the perfect storm in 1991. i want to show you the dynamics you just mentioned and we have it here. first, you have high pressure well off to the northern atlantic. there's the storm and there's the secr jet stream with low pressure working into the midwest. as we advance it and watch for landfall somewhere in the vicinity of the mid-atlantic and we'll get a better idea as we get the 5:00 advisory. what i want to point out is the way the dynamics are set up, we're seeing more of a steering mechanism that the models are in agreement, a north easterly turn will occur. the question is w
hurricane sandy. bonnie schneider is there with us now. a lot of forecasters have said they havep seen anything like this, or they anticipate this will be a record breaking kind of storm because you're really talking about three systems kind of converging, this hurricane, talking about the jet stream, and talking about this cold front all potentially colliding and that's what makes it so potentially threatening? >> that's why a lot of people are comparing it to the perfect storm in 1991....
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the area that sandy covered was roughly the size of europe. we had major disasters in a number of states that president obama already has declared emergency declarations in a number of states that have been declared. we have seen some huge impacts on things like the availability of power. and with of course the loss of power comes attendant losses on things like gasoline. so all of these things, all of these issues being worked now as the community comes back and as we work to support con ed and other utility companies in getting the grid back on. we have over 75,000 survivors in new york and new jersey who now have applied for disaster assistance already. almost $15 million is already on the street. this is assistance directly to individuals. that spigot is going well. we have what are called disaster recovery centers. kind of a one-stop-shop. it's where you can go and get the information about what assistance you can get, what the housing situation is, how you handle unemployment, if you need help with your kids in school, all the kind of as
the area that sandy covered was roughly the size of europe. we had major disasters in a number of states that president obama already has declared emergency declarations in a number of states that have been declared. we have seen some huge impacts on things like the availability of power. and with of course the loss of power comes attendant losses on things like gasoline. so all of these things, all of these issues being worked now as the community comes back and as we work to support con ed...
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given what took place with that superstorm sandy? five days after the storm, polling station managers are working to make sure voting goes as smoothly as possible. but is that a difficult undertaking? joining me to explain what they're doing in connecticut, connect kick' secretary of state, denise merril, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i understand already in some portions of connecticut like greenwich, everything is working again. you have the polling stations in place. but then are there other areas in connecticut that were impacted by the storm where things are not up and running. the polling stations and power is not up and running? >> there are still a few that we're worried about, probably a handful at this points, but we've been in communication with all of the 169 towns where these elections are held. we don't have a county election system in connecticut, so that's a big challenging. but we're pretty confident we will have most of the polling places up and running and generators standing by if needed. >> so this mean
given what took place with that superstorm sandy? five days after the storm, polling station managers are working to make sure voting goes as smoothly as possible. but is that a difficult undertaking? joining me to explain what they're doing in connecticut, connect kick' secretary of state, denise merril, good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i understand already in some portions of connecticut like greenwich, everything is working again. you have the polling stations in place....
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we're continuing to track hurricane sandy. we will talk with chad myers who is monitoring developments in weather center. we'll check back with him shortly. as we mentioned the storm threatens if nothing else to rain out significant chunks of the campaigns' final stretch. turnout is obviously going to be vital. as gary tuchman found out, enthusiasm is also going to be key. >> reporter: a day in the swing state of ohio. the electoral bull's eye of this political season. mitt romney working the crowds this afternoon in columbus. while barack obama pumped up his supporters in the evening in cleveland. both men receiving wild ovations. but while the crowd reaction is great, will that enthusiasm drive them to the polls on election day? even among the fervent obama supporters at this rally, this is a common theme. >> were you more excited four years ago or more excited today? >> i have to say honestly, i was more excited four years ago. >> reporter: meanwhile, fervent supporters at the romney rally often have their own nuanced motiv
we're continuing to track hurricane sandy. we will talk with chad myers who is monitoring developments in weather center. we'll check back with him shortly. as we mentioned the storm threatens if nothing else to rain out significant chunks of the campaigns' final stretch. turnout is obviously going to be vital. as gary tuchman found out, enthusiasm is also going to be key. >> reporter: a day in the swing state of ohio. the electoral bull's eye of this political season. mitt romney working...